Customers wait outside the Rave Theater in Montgomery, which is being sold to AMC Theatres.

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Although details are still being worked out, AMC Theatres, the Kansas-based movie theater chain that is the second largest in the United States, has entered into an agreement to buy central Alabama's biggest and most popular theater.

"The deal is still in progress, but we intend to close by the end of the year," said Sun Dee Larson, AMC vice president of film marketing and communications. "It will be the first AMC property in Alabama. We have never had an AMC theater in Alabama or even in that part of the South. ...